Official GoodPoint T-Shirts!

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I am super excited to announce that GoodPoint T-Shirts have finally been released!

When GoodPointMedia was started, my goal was to create a YouTube channel that promoted reaching out in positive ways. With this new T-Shirt project, we are partnering up with a company called Legacy Movement

http://www.thelegacymovement.com/

and will be working with another company in India called Freeset. 

http://freesetglobal.com/

Although they cost significantly more than other t-shirt companies (a couple times more), Freeset works to save women from the sex-trade by giving them jobs, health insurance, and most of all, their dignity to provide for themselves. Freeset unfortuantely only produces crew-neck (unisex) shirts but we also wanted to offer you the option for v-neck shirts as well, to also keep us from losing money on the Freeset shirts. Plus, the main purpose of this shirt-sale is not to make money but rather to take action in actually living out what GoodPoint Media was founded to do: positively impact people through media. This is just one example of how we can accomplish that and make a tangible difference around the world.

Okay now for the fun part!

Ordering your shirt

1. Go to http://legacymovement.bigcartel.com/product/pass-it-on

2. Select your shirt size/style and indicate number of shirts you would like. A shopping cart icon/tab will appear at the top of the page. Click the tab to view your cart.

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3. Click "Checkout" to proceed to payment page.

4. Complete payment page and click "Review and Continue". (address on this page should be your shipping address)

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5. Review order and complete payment

6. Thank you for supporting GoodPointMedia!

Please feel free to send an email to emailgoodpoint@gmail.com if you have any questions, comments, jokes, or really anything at all. I'd love to hear what you have to say! :)

 

*Edit 1/24/11: People have been asking for vneck sample pictures so here is what they will look like. 

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 They will be unisex even though the picture is of a man and of course the shirts will be blue instead of black. Hope this helps!

 

:) Pass it on.

Kevin

For Old Times' Sake

I was listening to the radio and "How To Save A Life" by The Fray was playing. If you don't already know, this was the song we used in GoodPoint's first big video project almost... 3 years ago! This project was actually where GoodPoint Media began. Here's to the good times. :)

Call up an old friend. For old times' sake.

Kevin

 

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK jr. What a great man. Sure we get a day off from school and work from his life's work, but there's so much more he did for us. From fighting segregation to leading his church congregation, MLK left his legacy through not only his position, but how he lived his life.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

- Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

What do you live for? What are you doing for others?

Kevin

Top 60!

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Today our video is #70 top-rated in "film and animation" for all of YouTube!!!

*Edit: Now we're top #64!

*Edit: Now we're top #60!

Thanks everyone so much for supporting GoodPoint Media. We strive to make positive media for YOU. thanks for helping us get to where we are today.

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Best,

Kevin

Owl City Music Video

After working on this project for almost 2 weeks, I am super excited to finally share this video with you. We made this video for you guys. Consider it a gift from GoodPoint Media to you. Happy 2011 everyone.

This fan music video is the very first project shot on my new camera (Canon EOS 60D) and we wanted to make something very special for you guys to enjoy. Owl City was one of my favorite artists in high school, and still is as a matter of fact! Just listening to his music brings back so many encouraging memories. Adam Young from Owl City is an incredible artist and all rights to this song belong to him and his label. Check out his music!

Adam says in his video "Road Stories" that "There has always been a mood that I want to convey via sound which is optimism." I believe that optimism and reaching out in positive ways is exactly what we strive to make GoodPoint Media stand for in the first place. We chose Owl City because no matter how high up the charts he goes, he stays true to his values and remembers why he makes music in the first place. 

That being said, we hope that this video brings a smile to your lips and encourages you in some way.

Thanks for watching.
Kevin

Who'll love me for me?

Funny how I just posted a blog entry earlier about music, but I came across another song that really moved me. 

It's called "What Love Really Means" and its by Christian artist JJ Heller. It talks about... well... what love really means.

There's no special effects or makeup or anything super great about the music video. In fact I thought the idea was pretty lame... but the thing is, that doesn't matter. Love isn't the shallow, carnal emotion you see in movies these days. Filmmakers have to represent love in a visual way and in less than an hour, so that's usually the media's way of portraying love, but is that really all it is?

The song's chorus says:

"Who'll love me for me?

Not for what I have done or what I will become

Who will love me for me?

'Cause nobody has shown me what love

What love really means."

"Who will love me for me?" Man, I first heard that and just stood there in awe at the lyrics. That's powerful stuff. Society teaches us that we have to change our externals, our behaviors, our clothes in order to be love-able but all the while, we don't even realize what it means to be loved simply for who we are. That we don't need to deserve love by our own efforts, but that true love, unconditional love, does not depend on us.

This is a Christian song, but you don't need to be Christian or speak 'Christianese' to understand it. So many Christians nowadays over-complicate things by adding in all these high-and-mighty phrases to make them seem like better people than the rest, but truth is, Christianity in a nutshell is "Who will love me for me?" plain and simple. I think about it and, man, it just puts all of Hollywood's perceptions of love to shame.

Whatever you believe, just realize that YOU are LOVED. Whether that be love from God, your parents, your classmates, your roommates, your coworkers, etc. YOU are LOVED and YOU are WORTH IT.

Kevin

Sky Sailing

It's been a while since any particular song made me feel so good. It's quite hard to describe actually...

There's something about music... the wonderful ability to lift the soul.

It's by Adam Young, which is pretty coincidental since we are currently in the process of making a fan music video to one of Owl City's songs. This song is called "Brielle" you can check it out here:

http://www.skysailingmusic.com/default.aspx

Hope it warms your heart as it did mine.

Kev

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

My new lights set came just the other day and I spent this New Year helping out my friend Jerry (jerrytingphotography.com) with a photo-shoot for 2 upcoming music artists, Austin Jackson (facebook.com/austinjacksonmusic) and Joey Cantrell (facebook.com/pages/Spade/173359276029536). I took some pics on the side as I was helping and I thought I'd share some with you guys.

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I'm sure they would love it if you would check out their sites ;)

Here's to a great 2010 and to the new year ahead!

Kevin